RE: Installing five identical systems...

["Antonio S. Martins Jr." <shadow wnet com br>]

Hi folks,

   Well... You can do this on various ways...

*- read the RedHat-CD HOWTO (I can't recall the exact file name), in
there are the steps to create an instalation CD from the FTP files, but
more important it explains how to upgrade packages, or change what
packages you want in your distro (I like ssh, an RH didn't come with it!).
Than You can make a Kickstart floppy and use your customized CD!

*- put the HD from the others machines on the machine you already had
Linux customized! make the partitions, format them, mount them on some
place (/mnt), and "cp -av" all the directories into it! Then put the HD
back on their original box, boot from floppy and call lilo (ops, this is
on i386, on alpha it isn't needed).

*- put the HD from the others machines on the machine you already had
Linux customized! and do "dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb"! This can work, I
hadn't tryed it yet, and you probably needs the same type of HD!

  Maybe it give you some ideas! 

                                              Antonio.

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Mike Foley wrote:

> 
> 	I'd love something like this also. I have to build
> 	RH systems on a regular basis and I'd love to be able
> 	to use a consistant copy with all the updates applied.
> 	Windows folks have something like this with things like
> 	Norton Ghost.
> 
> 	I have started looking into the Kickstart portion
> 	of RH but only briefly so far. (too busy building
> 	systems!)
> 
> 								mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jen-Shiang Yu [mailto:jsyumail@Platinum.Chem.nthu.edu.tw]
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 10:12 AM
> To: axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Installing five identical systems...
> 
> 
> 	I am about to install RedHat Linux together with Digital Unix
> on five identical DP264 machines. Now I have done setup on one machine, and 
> am wondering if there is any tool that can just "duplicate" the existing
> partition/data on the current system disk to the rest four new disks so as 
> to prevent from re-installation "from scratch". This way I can just plug the
> copied system disk into another machine, boot from it and change the 
> configurations since the hardware setting on these five machines are all the
> same. 
> 
> 	I believe such tools exist, or how can those system vendors bear
> doing the same job for one hundred times to install the 128-node cluster?
> 
> 	I am really appreciated for your help.  
> 
> --
> Jen-Shiang Kenny Yu 	//	jsyu@Platinum.chem.nthu.edu.tw
> 
> Theoretical Chemistry Lab,
> Deptartment of Chemistry,
> National Tsing Hua University
> Hsinchu 300, TAIWAN
> 
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